Courtright's

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From Phil Vettel's original four-star review, published June 10, 2010: I'm dining with my wife at Bill and Rebecca Courtright's eponymous south suburban restaurant, there's plenty of light in the 8 o'clock sky and, just beyond the restaurant's sloping, meticulously tended garden, a young deer approaches the line separating the property from the adjacent forest preserve. I stop eating and stare at this snapshot of nature. Rebecca Courtright, making the dining-room rounds, spots the deer too (it's probably old hat to her). "Ah, the 8 o'clock deer," she deadpans. "Right on time." I call that a Courtright moment, because this is the only place in the Chicago area where things like this happen. Oh, there are other charming country restaurants in the area, but none with this level of culinary mastery, and none that so fully embraces and celebrates its surroundings. When critics speak of a restaurant with a sense of place, this is what we mean. When you're at Courtright's, you know exactly where you are.

From Phil Vettel's original four-star review, published June 10, 2010: I'm dining with my wife at Bill and Rebecca Courtright's eponymous south suburban restaurant, there's plenty of light in the 8 o'clock sky and, just beyond the restaurant's sloping, meticulously tended garden, a young deer approaches the line separating the property from the adjacent forest preserve. I stop eating and stare at this snapshot of nature. Rebecca Courtright, making the dining-room rounds, spots the deer too (it's probably old hat to her). "Ah, the 8 o'clock deer," she deadpans. "Right on time." I call that a Courtright moment, because this is the only place in the Chicago area where things like this happen. Oh, there are other charming country restaurants in the area, but none with this level of culinary mastery, and none that so fully embraces and celebrates its surroundings. When critics speak of a restaurant with a sense of place, this is what we mean. When you're at Courtright's, you know exactly where you are.